Writer/director Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic about the 1940 evacuation of 330,000 Allied troops fleeing Nazi forces approaching the French coastal city of Dunkirk is pretty darn close to a masterpiece. It is told from the perspective of infantrymen under constant attack during the evacuation, fighter pilots trying to provide air cover, and the extraordinary private […]
This period drama set in 1865 rural northern England has young Katherine finding herself in one predicament after another as she tries to escape a loveless marriage. An effectively dark mood and psychological drama helps this low budget thriller blow a hole in the conventional reputation of period films as being stuffy affairs. Florence Pugh […]
The premise of this Canadian low budget horror film is simply awesome – a sheriff stumbles upon an injured drug addict on a desolate country road and brings him to the equally desolate nearby hospital that happens to be run by his ex-wife. Within minutes, the hospital is surrounded by a spooky hoard of dagger-wielding […]
Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star as sisters cage scuba diving with enormous Great White sharks off the coast of Mexico when the cable snaps, dropping them, yes, 47 meters to the ocean floor. Smartly snatched from a straight-to-DVD release at the last minute a few years ago, this clever moneymaker cranks out one preposterous […]
When the college “Flossy Posse” foursome reunites years later for a wild Essence Fest weekend in New Orleans, crazy fun follows. Regina Hall, Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith all deliver loads of laughs and have great chemistry, but it is Tiffany Haddish, in a star making role, who slays as the uproariously funny, potty-mouthed […]
Comedian Kumail Nanjiani stars in this romantic comedy about his real life courtship with his girlfriend Emily, as they navigate his family’s pressures to marry a Pakistani girl, an emotional breakup and Emily’s subsequent hospitalization with a mysterious, life-threatening illness. The story is a fresh, funny, poignant and honest look at relationships – made even […]
Tom Cruise stars in this first release from the new Dark Universe series reboot (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, et al.) as a modern day mercenary who, along with a pretty blonde Egyptologist, unearths a long buried, evil mummy set on ruling the world. The film is loaded with all the requisite eye-popping visual effects, […]
Man versus a bad b-movie is more like it. The star of a low budget outdoor reality TV show is dropped off to film his latest episode in a remote part of the Canadian Rockies, where strange things start happening. Despite a mildly creative spin on the found footage genre, the first half of this […]
This is an important film about the years-long genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that began in 1915. Told via the backdrop of a love triangle involving an Armenian doctor (Oscar Isaac), a famous American journalist (Christian Bale) and their mutual love interest (Charlotte Le Bon), the acting and cinematography are both […]
A more appropriate title for this third installment in the latest Planet of the Apes reboot would be War for the Writers of the First Two Films, whose absence is very apparent in this sequel, which has our apes in an all-out battle against humans for survival. It isn’t so much a war, however, as […]